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Remember GENNIFER FLOWERS, the Arkansas lounge singer who caused Bill and Hillary Clinton to have a pointed TV chat about their marriage? She's getting married Nov. 2 to longtime on-again-off-again boyfriend FINIS SHELNUTT, who Flowers' publicist David Hans Schmidt says is a "prominent institutional broker." He's also a former in-law to Whitewater figures Webb Hubbell and Seth Ward. The couple are planning a candlelit ceremony with just family, friends and PEOPLE magazine...
FOREIGN POLICY Said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. cannot be the world's policeman but can and should be the world's peacemaker. Deployed troops in Bosnia to enforce peace and in Haiti to return a President to power, and has worked to broker peace in the Middle East...
...richest African American in U.S. history through ruthless ambition and sheer willpower; Loida is scholarly and low key, the author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While...
MERRILL LYNCH, New York; 800-637-3863. Yes, the big bull sells mutual funds as well as stocks--118 proprietary funds, including closed-end and offshore. Of course, the old caveat applies: you buy from a broker, you pay a broker a commission--or, since it's a fund, a load...
There are many other brand-name funds, including Franklin Templeton, Dreyfus and broker Smith Barney. Always check out a fund's long-term record before you buy. Ask friends about their experiences with specific funds. Pay closer attention to those who have stuck with a fund for at least a few years. The biggest mistakes people make in mutual-fund investing? "Focusing on the short term rather than the long term is one," says Vanguard's Bogle, "and not giving adequate thought to an overall balanced investment program as distinct from randomly picking funds is another...